Nicholls Student Life is introducing a new addition to the campus greek community this semester, a chapter of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. “I personally believe that Gamma Phi Beta is one of the most fitting sororities for our campus,” Delta Zeta President ...

The religion/mythology of Ancient Greece provided us with very muscular and sensuous gods such as Zeus (the 'king' god), Aphrodite (goddess of love/beauty), and Medusa (demon-goddess of hypnosis). The Christian Bible provides us with very human-sentimental ...

“Given the roadblocks in Brighton, Chick-fil-A will probably just stick with opening new stores in Greece and Henrietta,” says Daniele. Wegmans provided the following statement in response: “We sent a letter to the Town of Brighton in May 2016 to ...

Helene moves to Greece to live with a godfather she has never met with a mission to investigate her mother's mysterious disappearance, which she believes involves the Greek mafia. There, she faces all the usual travails of being a teenager: adjusting to a ...

Israeli and Jewish American humanitarian aid organizations have launched an emergency mission to deliver warm clothing to Syrian refugees suffering from sub-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall in Greece. The extreme wintry weather has made life in the ...

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt signed on Thursday a bilateral agreement to improve international tax compliance and the implementation of the law on Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), as well as the ...

"On Wednesday's debate in parliament was proved that the government does not have a plan for the country's exit from the crisis" noted main opposition New Democracy (ND) spokesman Vassilis Kikilias on Thursday. "Kyriakos Mitsotakis (ND leader) represents ...

My journey began at the second annual Polyglot Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, a similarly vibrant former center of Jewish civilization in Europe. Accompanied by my polyglot partner-in-crime, Yankl Peretz Blum, we embarked on an arduously long bus ride ...

A five-month-old infant died during a domestic violence incident on Crete island, police announced on Thursday. The boy who succumbed to the heavy injuries he allegedly suffered from his 52-year-old father was one of the 1,000 cases of children abuse ...

The following is an excerpt of a conversation between Nia Vardalos and Tom Hanks. Hanks is in italic. Hey, why don't we do a sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the most popular romantic comedy of all-time! What do you want to do with it? I mean, the movie ...

The source’s identity is redacted. A 1953 document describes UFO sightings in Spain, Greece, Algeria and the then French Morocco, detailing a number of incidents based on local newspaper reports. The subject of the file is “Military – unconventional ...

She’s been seen in a headscarf, snapped with a copy of the Qur’an and has cleared out her Instagram account. None of these things are getting her any closer to Northamptonshire It was the philosophising Greek Earth-measurer Eratosthenes who said: “Once I have a kid I’m not going to be on Instagram. You know, I’ll probably delete my Instagram and just … I don’t know, live life.” Or was it Kylie Jenner? The details are unimportant but the message is clear: delete Instagram and live life. Instagram and life-living are mutually exclusive. It is not possible to prove you are in close proximity to an avocado while also being wholly existent. So what are we to make of Lindsay Lohan deciding this week to clear out her Instagram account, which at the time of writing has 5.8 million followers, precisely zero posts, and a bio that consists of no more than “Alaikum salam” with a hand emoji? Is Lindsay now living life with an intensity that she was not before? Is it now more meaningful, or more joyful, and, in either case, is she doing loads of congas? A more important issue, as many onlookers immediately decided in light of the “Alaikum salam” bio, is she doing all that because she has converted to Islam? Continue reading...

Nashik: The city's internationally acclaimed artist Prafull Sawant has added another achievement to his long list accomplishments. The International Watercolor Society of Greece selected his painting for Atlantis International Award, one of the most ...

The embattled Greek government is now apparently aiming to achieve an "honorable compromise" at the forthcoming Jan. 26 Eurogroup meeting, where the now delayed process to conclude a second review of the Greek program (third bailout) will reportedly top ...

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded in response to an Athens-inspired coup seeking union with Greece. "The working group, established during the high-level meeting in Geneva on January 12, successfully completed the mandate ...

In the course of its visits since 1993 and reports on Greece the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has recorded numerous cases of torture and other forms of ill-treatment. In its 2015 visit report on Greece, CPT noted that infliction ...

Deposits in Greek banks’ savings accounts dipped below the 50-billion-euro mark in November for the first time since capitals controls were imposed in June 2015, Bank of Greece data show. The data, published by the country’s central bank on Thursday ...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he wouldn’t support a new Greek bailout if the International Monetary Fund declines to join the current program, saying Germany is sticking to its... The post German Finance Minister insists on IMF role in Greece appeared first on The National Herald.

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot officials, as well officials from Cyprus' 'guarantors' Britain, Greece and Turkey had three days of talks planned. Eide said negotiations are continuing but didn't provide details about when the Greek Cypriot and Turkish ...

The sun is shining brightly as we pull in through the wire gates of the Schisto Emergency Reception Site for refugees located in Western Athens. I am dressed in a sky blue vest that proudly announces UNHCR in white letters. A group of women and children ...

Greek state budget recorded a primary surplus of 1.94 billion euros in 2016, from 3.5 billion in 2015, the Bank of Greece said on Thursday. Greek central government cash balance recorded a deficit of 3.569 billion euros in 2016, compared with a deficit of ...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he would not support as new bailout for Greece if the International Monetary Fund decides to stay away form the current Greek program. Speaking to Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Schaeuble said “The Greek program is based from the very beginning […]

Malta, Albania, the Faroe Islands and Montenegro got through the preliminary round for the 2015 Women's World Cup, with Estonia, Israel, Greece, Albania, Turkey (who won four of their ten matches) and Kazakhstan also taking part in the qualifying group stage.

According to the channel, Akinci also stated that a settlement on the Cyprus problem will not be possible if the 'Greek Cypriot side and Greece insists on zero troops and zero guarantees.' Speaking on a joint live broadcast with TRT TV in Turkey and BRT ...

Vasilis Tsartsanis was filming a music video near the Greek-Macedonian border in September 2014 when he noticed small groups of people trudging through the fields. Confused over why families would be walking through “the middle of nowhere”, he asked ...

We want Greek seamen to work in Greek-owned ships and in this framework the ministry has taken an initiative for a dialogue between shipowners and seamen in an effort to find common ground and to understand the current situation, Shipping Minister ...

Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades reiterated their countries common position for a solution without guarantees and Turkish troops on the island during their meeting on Thursday in Nicosia. Welcoming Pavlopoulos ...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he wouldn’t support a new Greek bailout if the International Monetary Fund declines to join the current program, saying Germany is sticking to its ground rules for the country’s financial lifeline.

Greek national passenger and freight train operator Trainose was sold off on Wednesday to Italian state railway group Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) Italiane for a sum of 45 million euros. Named preferred bidder last summer, the Italian company signed a ...

The head of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Taleb Rifai has accepted an invitation to visit Greece in the near future, the Greek tourism ministry announced on Thursday. The UNWTO secretary general was presented with the invitation during meeting ...

If backflips were an Olympic sport, it is certain that Mr. Tsipras and his cabinet would bring plenty of gold medals to Greece. Only days ago, the ailing Lambrakis Press Organization (DOL) that is on the brink of bankruptcy, was the “epicenter of media ...

a trial hearing given to a singer, actor, or other performer to test suitability for employment, professional training or competition, etc. She was nervous for her singing audition for she had a sore throat. Join, junc (Latin)